getty images: The Justice Department is dispatching more than 500 staffers to monitor voting in 28 states Tuesday, as the country prepares for one of the most contentious elections in its history. Federal authorities, deployed from Bethel, Alaska, to Napa County, Calif., will determine whether voters are subject to racial discrimination, improper barriers related to language differences or […]
The federal government unveiled a website this week to provide the public with updates on its case against Dylann Roof, the man charged with murdering nine people at Emanuel AME Church and violating their civil rights. The section on the U.S. Department of Justice website also gives links to resources for victims’ family members and […]
The fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice involves critical problems in the Cleveland Police Department that the Justice Department’s been studying since early last year. That report on the use of deadly force, and whether CPD’s largely white department violates civil rights of the largely black city that it serves, is expected to […]
